The End of the Lake

Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 10 Aug 2012

The ponds and lakes in South Hill Park are part of the course of a small stream which rises in Swinley Forest just to the south. As well as being decorative, the lakes also act as holding ponds at times of heavy rain, but when the lake is full water will spill over this weir and head off down the valley which runs to the north west. Flood risk has been taken seriously in Bracknell and there is an extensive network of largely unseen culverts and storage ponds, some concealed beneath buildings, which are needed to deal with the run off from the surrounding urban areas. This is one of the streams which form the headwaters of a tributary unimaginatively known as The Cut, which joins the Thames opposite Dorney rowing lake.

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